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There’s still a significant difference between eating meat less often and abstaining from meat and other animal products completely, isn’t there?

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Yeah sure. The suffering you cause is proportional to how much meat you eat. If quitting it entirely is too big a step for you then try scaling it back. Even a single meat-free day a week is a good place to start. You may find you don't miss it as much as you think you will.

> The suffering you cause is proportional to how much meat you eat.

Oh really? Sounds like ideology more than fact.

Are you really insinuating that plants don't feel pain? Because they certainly do. Look up Cleve Backster's research on plants.

It takes 7-10 kg of plants to produce one kg of meat, so you're causing that much more suffering even if you are willing to claim that plants suffer as much as we do from pain.

Then we just need to feed the animals their natural diets instead of the abnormal, unnatural diet of grains and soyabeans that most factory-farmed animals are currently fattened on.

Solution doesn't seem that difficult to me.

If we do that then we can all eat meat about once a week. And anyway the ratio of plants eaten to meat produced would be about the same so no gain there.

I don't think, Backster's "research" on plants is convincing: http://skepdic.com/plants.html

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